March Madness: Rangers, Jordan & NCAA

Rivera and the Rangers will be funHere's hoping that outfielder/part-time thief Ruben Rivera makes the Rangers team. How entertaining is this team going to be this season? Not only do you have Ruben (klepto) Rivera, but you have John (bigot) Rocker, as well as Carl (dressing room poison) Everett. The Texas media must be in heaven. As a sports writer, there is nothing I crave more than controversy and behind-the-scenes fighting.

Couldn't you just picture it? Rivera steals Everett's glove. But, John Rocker sees him taking it and uses an ethnic slur. Then, Everett comes in and assaults Rivera, prompting the Texas police to investigate him for assault — again. This is the only time in baseball history that reporters of the league's 29 other teams are envious of the Rangers' media. The only question remains: Will this circus of a team finish last in the league, or just last in the division?

Networks lose money on football: Boohoo!This month, both Fox and CBS have gone on record as saying that they are losing money on NFL football. Don't you just feel bad for them? Let's all start passing the collection plate for these poor, unfortunate souls. The only people to blame for the downturn in profits are themselves. Had Fox not paid an obscene amount to wrestle football away from CBS in the'90s, CBS wouldn't have had to pay a fortune to secure football from NBC.

The old saying "you made your bed, now lie in it" is perfectly fitting. Networks bid blindly for the rights to the "Holy Grail" that is the National Football League, and the NFL is supposed to feel sorry for them? When numbers in the billions were getting thrown around, you knew that the networks were in over their heads. But, if I were the NFL and some network offered me a billion dollars for my league's rights, I would start breathing again, pick myself off the ground, and find a pen as quickly as I could. "Where do I sign?"

The NHL trades that weren'tDon't you feel bad for the Chicago Blackhawks and Boston Bruins? These are two teams with unrestricted free agents on their rosters in Bill Guerin and Tony Amonte. Yet, as the trading deadline came and went, they did not deal these star players. How could they? Boston is in first place in the conference, while Chicago is poised to make the postseason for the first time in many years.

Originally, the plan for these teams was to try and contend for a playoff spot and then trade these players away at the deadline. Unfortunately for management, their respective teams have been two of the great stories of this NHL season. Neither the Bruins nor the Blackhawks are close to signing their men, begging the question: What are these two players waiting for? An invitation by Detroit to play for them? I have some bad news for you guys; not all veteran All-Star players get to play for the Red Wings. (Just most...)

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